The Hindu Business Line : Friday, October 19, 2007

EDITORIAL
Oil diplomacy
It is on Nigerian oil that attention will have to be focused because of India’s growing energy needs and the imperative to diversify its oil sources. More

CORPORATE
Video-conferenced Board meetings — Face-to-face interaction can make a difference
Apart from legal objections and practical constraints, board meetings through video-conference have other disadvantages, as positive deliberations are possible only at face-to-face meetings where personal interaction and discussion are possible. More

ECONOMY
The new industrialisation
Land, not capital, is the scarcest resource for the Indian economy as it prepares for the nest phase of industrial expansion, says ASHOAK UPADHYAY. More

ENVIRONMENT
Green is the colour of peace!
The just-announced Nobel Prize for Peace brings into sharp focus the grave crisis of global warming. Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, and the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by Dr R.K. Pachauri, Director-General of ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Trade with the US — The labour loophole
Angered by opposition to the nuclear deal, the US may tread a familiar track to show its displeasure — banning goods produced from child labour and forced labour, which could hit Indian exports. More

POLITICS
Party cross-talk
It is now practically confirmed that communication lines within the Congress party are quite clogged. Just a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party President Sonia Gandhi announced the retreat from pushing ahead with the Indo-US civil ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Occupational health and safety
Globalisation is characterised by a problematic co-existence of blessings and curses: Integration with global economy versus dispersal of manufacturing and production processes; disproportionate benefits for some versus want of basic amenities ... More

BOOKS
Why do market crashes happen?
The picture is still hazy after a series of avalanches in the Indian bourses, and investors repeatedly found the ground slipping away. Who would forget how, only days ago, the charts were awash with red before brokers could mutter their prayers ... More

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